DESENSITIZING CONTROL FOR THE HEAT EQUATION WITH RESPECT TO DOMAIN VARIATIONS

This article is dedicated to desensitizing issues for a quadratic functional involving the solution of the linear heat equation with respect to domain variations. This work can be seen as a continuation of [28], insofar as we generalize several of the results it contains and investigate new related properties. In our framework, we consider variations of the spatial domain on which the solution of the PDE is defined at each time, and investigate three main issues: (i) approximate desensitizing, (ii) approximate desensitizing combined with an exact desensitizing for a finite-dimensional subspace, and (iii) exact desensitizing. We provide positive answers to questions (i) and (ii) and partial results to question (iii).